William Ferraro, a senior associate editor with the University of Virginia’s Washington Papers project said the fake letters were not particularly unusual for their time. Many politicians and writers schemed against each other, and pamphlets were a common format to use when making attacks on opponents. Rumors and innuendo ran rampant. What’s more, the unity and idealism of the revolution, the spirit of 1776, had gradually dissipated over the years. By the time Washington was preparing to leave office in 1797, political parties and extreme partisanship had begun. "It got Washington incredibly u...
Penn would be welcomed into the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, which has about 40 member schools in the U.S. and abroad, said its co-chair, Dr. Kirt von Daacke, assistant dean and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. “Penn’s findings are yet another reminder that slavery and racism in the American past are not Southern stories, they are American stories,” he said, adding that the revelations are less about an individual school’s history and more about “America becoming more connected to its complicated and difficult past.”
An FCC Commissioner made the rounds at the University of Virginia Health System on Monday as a part of a partnership aimed at helping rural patients get top notch health care.
(Video) CGTN's Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Aynne Kokas, author of "Hollywood made in China," about China's expanding ties with Hollywood.
(Commentary) Interestingly, as much as we’re currently experiencing a public push for greater data-tracking transparency, the reality might be that consumers actually don’t value the transparency that much. Researchers from Harvard Business School, the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and IESE (the graduate business school of the University of Navarra, Spain) have shown in their paper “Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness ” that consumers are reluctant to engage with ads that they know have been offered to them because of their online ac...
If the divide were in effect during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton would have won all three Californias, according to an analysis by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, beating President Trump by more than 30 percentage points in both Northern California and California, and by 10 percentage points in Southern California. However, the same analysis found Democratic President Barack Obama would have narrowly beaten Republican Mitt Romney by 0.6 percent in the state of Southern California in 2012.
(Audio) This Independence Day, Connecticut residents will flock to the shoreline, raising umbrellas and spreading towels along the state's beaches. Yet, behind this sunny imagery hides a somber history -- a story of coastal ownership and exclusivity. This hour, University of Virginia professor and Free the Beaches author Andrew Kahrl joins us. We reflect on the impact of Connecticut’s private and restricted beaches and learn about a 20th-century crusade to unlock the state’s coast.
Tommye S. Sutton, deputy chief of police at Northwestern University, has been named assistant vice president and chief of police at the University of Virginia, starting in August.
UVA’s Darden School of Business ranks No. 24.
The Federal Communications Commission is interested in increasing its support of rural communities, and is eyeing ways to help health care organizations expand care beyond buildings. According to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, the commission historically has supported getting broadband to buildings, but now wants to help organizations take internet and mobile devices afield. Carr toured the University of Virginia Medical Center on Monday and learned about telehealth — the practice of examining and treating patients remotely.
(Commentary by David A. Martin, professor emeritus at the UVA School of Law) Surprised by vehement public reaction, President Donald Trump has decreed an end to the policy of separating arriving asylum seekers from their children. But what now?
Daniel Willingham, a UVA psychologist and the author of “Raising Kids Who Read,” doesn't champion reading for the obvious reasons. He wants his kids to love reading because, he says, "for me it's a family value. It's something that I love, something that I find important. I think I gain experiences I wouldn't gain any other way by virtue of being a reader. And so naturally I want my children to experience that."
(Commentary) Visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington and the transportation exhibit “America on the Move” will sell you on the commonly held theory that when Henry Ford made cars affordable, Americans loved them and demanded more and more highways. UVA history professor Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in American cities” contends that’s a myth.
For a 25th consecutive year, the University of Virginia has finished in the top 30 of a national sports competition called the “Directors’ Cup.” The Wahoo athletic program completed its latest academic year ranked No. 21.
Tanner Hirschfeld, 19, a University of Virginia student who was youth director for one of Stewart’s primary opponents, Del. Nick Freitas, is considering leaving his Senate ballot blank. He was one of several Republicans interviewed for this story who said Stewart could still win them over by clearly denouncing hate groups with which he has associated. “It’s going to take a lot of convincing and apologies and condemnations and clear statements,” Hirschfeld said. “Because it’s not acceptable to play footsie with the alt-right. There’s nothing right about them.”
Rep. Mimi Walters of Irvine (Orange County) found her 45th District race dropped from “leans Republican” to “toss-up” by Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election race rating service at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. Walters is being challenged by Democrat Katie Porter in the Nov. 6 election. Walters “only got about 53 percent of the two-party vote (in the primary), a significant drop from usual GOP performance in the district,” said Kyle Kondick, the site’s managing editor. “The primary results don’t suggest Walters is doomed to lose; rather, they just indicate th...
The party itself is changing, argues Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He said while the party used to be dominated by “white men with ethnic European surnames” like Crowley, “the party is increasingly reliant, particularly in diverse places like New York City, on nonwhite voters and women in general.” He said that the Democrats who have spoken out against Pelosi combined with Crowley’s surprising loss may not be the canaries in the coal mine that some think they are. The New York primary, he said, “means little for November,” he said and the midterms themselves, h...
Virginia GOP Chairman John Whitbeck announced his resignation just weeks after Corey Stewart won the Republican nomination to go up against Sen. Tim Kaine in the November election for Senate, and some are speculating that the two pieces of news are related. Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Whitbeck’s decision comes as his party goes through an internal conflict between an insurgent, more conservative wing and establishment-type Republicans. “I would suspect that that conflict might arise here as well, in terms o...
Facing one of the toughest re-election fights of the 2018 cycle, North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is laser-focused on the bipartisan legislative victories she's accumulated in the six years she's been on Capitol Hill, which span the issues that drive her state's economy, including energy and agriculture. That message was front and center in the campaign ad Heitkamp's team unveiled this week, which notes her 2017 designation as one of the most effective Democratic senators of the last Congress by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. That effort, a joint project between the University ...
While campus-based racial incidents get a lot of attention, racism is endemic to American society, noted Kirt von Daacke, a University of Virginia professor and the co-chair of the university president’s commission on slavery and the university. Von Daacke encouraged reporters to broaden their focus and to include off-campus perspectives. “Don’t look at universities as ivory towers walled off from the communities around them,” he said. “We’re local microcosms of that phenomenon and that history.” He added: “Any of these stories about slavery and racism on college campuses are ones that as soon...